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SUBMITTER: Khan AO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2714775 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khan Arif O AO Aldahmesh Mohammed A MA Ghadhfan Faisal E FE Al-Mesfer Saleh S Alkuraya Fowzan S FS
Molecular vision 20090724
<h4>Purpose</h4>To assess for gammaD-crystallin (CRYGD) mutation in 2 Saudi patients with cerulean cataract and in a brother of one of the patients who had coralliform cataract.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients and all of their available relatives underwent ophthalmic examination and subsequent sequencing of the candidate gene CRYGD.<h4>Results</h4>In the first family, a 4-year-old boy with bilateral cerulean cataract and his 6-year-old brother with similar bluish lens discoloration but in a coralliform ...[more]